Teaching Secondary Physics: A Course for Classical Education Minors

A course on Teaching Secondary Physics was redesigned to be accepted as an elective in the Classical Education minor program at Hillsdale College. The course, directed toward future physics teachers in a classical school setting, specifically confronts similarities and differences in the ways that physics in particular and science in general are addressed inside versus outside the modern classical education movement. Examination of relevant Physics Education Research (PER) for the various topics is a central component of each class session. The course has now been implemented successfully for three semesters. This talk reports on the design of the course, its reception, success and failures, lessons learned so far, and future outlook.